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COLEMAN v. YOKUM

Civ. A. No. 69-32.

320 F.Supp. 54 (1970)

Freeman COLEMAN v. Honorable Leonard YOKUM, District Attorney, 21st Judicial District, State of Louisiana.

United States District Court, E. D. Louisiana, Baton Rouge Division.

December 2, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sylvia Roberts, Baton Rouge, La., for plaintiff.

Leonard Yokum, Dist. Atty., Joseph H. Simpson, Asst. Dist. Atty., Twenty-First Judicial District, Amite, La., for defendant.

WEST, Chief Judge:

Federal subject matter jurisdiction has been alleged and exists in this matter under the Civil Rights Act, 28 U.S.C.A. § 1343, and 42 U.S.C.A. § 1983.

Since a statutory three judge court has concluded that Article 580 of the Louisiana Code of Criminal Procedure, which was under attack by the plaintiff herein, is not unconstitutional, see Coleman v. Yokum, 320 F.Supp. 50, E.D.La. 1970), this...

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